The Sun. — London, England, 1810-11-06 00:00:00

s bipe 011'11 A fth to P9Cl‘. fr(`' r pedj's 7 j a g CO 60 ,0 ,ML I tiv . .eiLrEß DE LA PEROPSE. Co r ip r , i bri; GO'S, ;3 1; ,ritb''' be (.7,13° , s sllii 7 ot ilooP nd P 6 0 4 the I" , F/i !1 31 '3 ) Lit Jr m~ itE,f • a/ ty•Co of w ~t~ I." _ 1 , 03 54 at FO r" : 10. :ISI 01' Cr ' 0 e a o r Y• l ig C a r e of t " to e licS ;hun t, oolie boi , t o r a bosi w wbi c o tance'c • tbs Y ; e g ad, Dra c l l r e stated in onr paper of ye'terday the discovery. sortie documents which Were supposed to relate ' the last 4 oyage Or -Melancholy catastrophe. of this il ekrbra le d an d unfortunate .circumnavigator; at Van -, '• 4ll vn's land, in New Holland.. The following particulars of this extraordinary event have been (:41 „ Il Ynutticated to us through - a channel; . which in. " tlr ei us to place Atte fullest reliance in their ac tutacy • Au officer_of the name of Edwards, belonging to e Silt regiment of light dragoons, which has been i ); 1 ' On - s e r v i ce i u was proeeecling .to, New Wales' in the VoOns, fur the becefit:of his ; 1 "a , 'th. When, Abe vessel was utf Vail Diemen's t"ud, Lieutenant Edwards and some otherslanded r the , purpose of amusing'themselves, and seeing a i. i' i ttle of th e country. Afier walking. about for some me, some of the company perceived an inscription ut in the bark of a tree, the charatiers of, which' , ‘"re nearly obliterated-- or filled up. The date, ",ovvever, was legible, which,. by a singular coinci-, etice; - proved t o have been inscribed exactly that ' Ve ry day seventeen years' As the Whole of the inscription, from the cir cumstances we have stated, could not be deciphered, ,he company 'returned on board, giving up all idea of further research. The extraordinary disdovery 4 , a ving made a deeper intpression % on Mr: Edwards ran it did on his fellow-passengers, he determined 4 . ° make another attempt to decipher the inscription ; f or which purpose he went on shore the nett morn -Ing, accompanied by some persons to whom he had i mparted a portion of his zeal and curiosity. Their h est proceeding was to clear away the bark from the tree, by which means they found that the impreS :'c'n on the body of the tree was sr., strong as to be e gib:e. They ascertained from it that something of P)risequenee \yds buried at the root of the tree. • Mr. Edwards immediately set to work with an 'run instrument they had Nought on shore, and at -14 -digging for a short -time, it came in contact 4 'ifh a gl a s s bottle, an d br o k e it, b u t fortu n ately `he'cont en t s were not.tujored. Upon examinatioo 11 1 1 were found to consist of four letters; two of hid) were addressed to persons at that time filling Ittuatiens in the GOVeinnieitt of France, and the t i ller to two }adj.'s. A paper also acomptitied the ''ters, which- were Carefully sealed, reques ing "' ( =never should tied- them to forward them to their re.spellive addresses. Mr. Edwards, under these v ' T Yunisrances, as Well as in observance of the 4 entiinelits which should aniruatp an Officer and a . Gentleillan, did not fed himself warranted in vlP`Jning the 'mysterious papers, but carried • them 41 the state they were found to the Governor cif -New South Wales, at whose disposal_ be was s'anxio t i i to place them. The . Governor, however, co tisidering Lieutenant Edwards 'as best entitled to t he merit of _the discovery, submitted to bun the I)...!upritty of transmitting them himseil to the British ki ovt..-rnineitt. This suggestion was adopted, and 11 : 11 % E , '.lwaois fOrwarded the letters unopened, with at) atli_own of the manner in . .which they. were ais eilLered, by the Dromedary more-ship ,to his lather i n Lonna ; who, in contorinity with his son's. re'. ;lue , t, i n t en d e d t o p u t the m tios.morning into the '"'ids of the Secretary of'State for the Colonial De- That iberetters contain some information relating tO th e fate of that very able and much lamented mariner, PELtOUSE, most probable; for the latest iti tel.lgence obtained of •him. . was not far removed i the date of the inscription, when he was coo `utuing his researches in the same *quarter. As the whin Lieutenant Edwards prac t...''ed with "respect to thew interesting letters, we h ; 14 `.e reason to presume, will also be observed by the of Liverpool, and that they will be transmit- Led by his Lordship toTratiCe in the precise state he r eceived th em , it, is-possible that we may be con , qttnried to the mortification of being kept in igno "-4:ice of their contents. . . Buoitaparte is.so much out of humour with Lug land, so impracticable and unaccommodating, that we should not be surprised at his withholding flow the gratification of learning what has become of t . rtan, whose talents we as mach respctted, and ',hose supposed Melancholy fate, -we as much - de- Onted, as the country which had the honour of giv,- ttt g him birth. We think We have a right, on this • ce easion: 'at least, to a reciprocity of good offices i r uin the Government of 'Trance. WATemmAxerrs.—A. great many of these trades -len..at the West end of the town, hate rece►.tly 1)11 ep tricked -out of watches, some of considerable vale, by a tall good-looking man, who pretends to lave been recommended by Lord F. B. and as he is., . r 1 1105 f probably stillicarrying on his depredations we to be our .duty to caution the public against . He begins in an easy , confident manner dechnitig that lie Warits a watch made, of the 814 e of about thirty guineas, and alter speaking of 111 , e Nobleman, with whom he, says he shall call in.. few days, otters, as he is-a stranger, to leave a Bank . °te with the tradeiman, a 5 En - , earnest for future st)l3-snent. some cases_ the' Bank-bete has bten ,l4eO, and' has prOVed forged one, and in others . been refused by the tradesman, from motives- of ‘L' li caey. Just before tire sharper leaves the shop be turns back, as if from a sudden thought, and re :pests the use of a watch till his own is finished.— h i B artifice has succeeded iu a multiplicity of in-. s ta nces, and it is probable that he practises tricks of similar nature upon tradesmen of a different de -4 few - days since, two sharpers of genteel appear ehr,''ee, went to a silversmith's shop in the neighbour ()ed of East Smithfield, and selected various articles of 0 , Plate, to the amount of near forty pdunds, which ' e 44 .eY ordered to be sent to a house in the Cotnmer ,,zr4l Road. The plate was delivered agreeable to order, and a plrty, ready to receive the same, gave ~_ lad one Shilling - to buy 'a. stamp to receive iatta}Teent. When he returned, the house was shut up, • il ! i d she Off en d ers h a d decamped.- Diligent search • 3 been made after them, but hithetto without • week Mr. Strutt, farmer, of Norwell, near 1 „ -W4 rk, was killed by - a fall -trorn his horse. His ,n died a b out s i x mont h s b e f o re, in consecitlence, 4 eing thrown by the saille aniu is - I --- BUENOS AYRFAI GAZETTE. • . August r',' a to: The General cprotronding the Ekpedition to the Interior Provinces received the fifflOwing cominotti dation on the 3.d. of August, at hi; headlnarters of Corral de Maestro, from the Cabildo at Cord Ova SENOR GeriettALL 7 The Cabildo is persnaded that the greater part of the inhabitants of this city, at the pre,ent moment; ate much agitated with fear in consequence of the intelligence from Buenos Ayres, which announce to them the approach of the Expedition to• the interior Provinces, and which could not be allayed, notwithst3nding the arrival of the public Ne*spapers, %% plat breathe nothing but sentiments of the purest fraternity and union, from which it is to he'llopt.d that the inhabitants of this 'town will receive no ill-treatment from those com ing from the capital ; and, on the other hand, the dread and consternation which have seized the pub lic mind at the near approach of the army, which has alsu been augmented by the absence of, the Go vernor, the Intendant, and the Bishop of 'this Dia- . cese, this Ayuntamtento has considered it as abso lutely necessary for the maintenance of public tran quility to send to your Excellency, in quality of Deputy, the Alcade Don Jose Antonio Ortiz del Valle,, that ,your Excellency, before the arrival of the troops, will condescend to remove the e r roneous impressions which have been made upon the public mind,' by answering this letter, and which this Ca bildo proposeslto your Excellency with the greatest deference. . . " God preserve your Exceilency many years. " Sala Capitular de Cordova, Aug. t." [Here follow the names of the different Maglitrates.] " To the General of the Army and Representative of the Governing, junta or buenus - (A true Copy.)- ." LOPEZ?' " The present agitated state of your mind in te spetc,l to the. fears and aftlittions which the slander and fithehood.of those who mOitated the overthrow and .disunion of the - coUritry has filled the public mind, I have been:Made - acquainted With by your letter to me by Doni,lose Antonio Urtiz del Valle. At the same time that it ovqrpoiers :me with ,grief, I cannot help noticing your ;dial want of abi lity and firmness,-in . not helng.able to conyince . the people, if you really relied on the good iiitetitions of the Junta,._so Many times expressed in their public proclatnat ions, .and which were all 'reptaten by me upon taking :command of the army, with the addl . - tion, thaf.rny sole object was - to regain for, them the sacied•righis ni . Americans, and free them from their opiassors; but. since so, many .public .'oroclaina tion.,. in Which the character'and intentionsof the could not have been misunderstood, have been insufficient, you may from this moment in form the inhabitants, that my actions shall in no re sped deviate from the proclamations issued by the Junta ; :mod casting away all the terrors which want of discipline only can inspire, }ou will also state, that I am determined tp,thastise, with the utmost rigour, the slightest violation either of the property Or persons, of any of the inhabitants; and,- at the batne-titne.., I expect )ou will take every precaution to secure public tranquility, so necessary ati•this moment for the glory of America. God preserve, tirc. • " FRANCISCO ORTIZ DE ()CAMPO. " HIPOLITO VIEYTES. • " VICENTE Lorez, Secretary. Heai-Quarteri, of the Arm, Corral del Maestro, Aug. 3, 1810. • • (A true Copy.) " LorEz ' " POTOSI, JUNE 27,—The Peninsula over-run, and the• Government of the Central Junta at - an end, it is high tune that America should- proceed in the formation cf a Government, by calling to gether a congress of the different towns, by' means of their different represenititives. • Fur that purpose the Junta established - in the'Capital, of which your Excellency is the worthy President, commenced its labourS. " The moment the inhabitants of this town read the ten articles contained in the plan, arid the other pLiblic documents received . from the. Capital, pus,. sessed of that noble enthustaSm which reciprocal welfare inspires, seeing that between the European Spaniards and the Americans antipathy was extin guished, from that moment they reckoned upon the -happiness of their country, founded as it would be. upon the Supreme Laws ot the country. " But, how lamentable ! A§ in. this miserable' life corruption and vice exist in continual warfare with vir ue and good intentions, so in• this .instance have they attempted' to stifle, by at tificial means, the wishes of the Capital, •by • factions and parties uniting to oppose the eleOien of a body of national representatives, as yout ,Excellency will perceive by the annexed paper. • ; " The remedy must be applied-,before the evil gets too.. Fast a root, and your Junta, composed of tneo of such virtue and talent, .A.7annOt ,want the means of carrying ioto.executi.ty the.fitst article of the pirin. This town, depre4secl and deprived of its nio,t sacred rights, t•xpeOs that,you - wilt tarry into per felion.tlloo . and woili.}e have commenced, and it raise its voice to the King ot Kings to in spire such worthy patriots in the accomplishment of labours, so nobly commenced. Your Excellency will perceive ilia( I. have been forced to use a ficti tious name, lest a numerous•family should fall vic tims to arrogance and persecution, ". May God preserve, &c. • Potosi; June 417, 18 1 O.' " GII. :CORONA." To the Commandant-General, Don .Cornelio Saavedra. OCCURRENCES AT rOTOSI. PROM THE 7TH ,JUNE, WHEN THE EXPRESS DIS PATCHED BY THE INTENDANT OF CORDOVA AR- R IVED. " The Intendant Sanz talks of an .alliance he has made against the rights of the people, and to the pt = oject of Buenos Ayres. He has called together the rest of the intendants ot the provinces.: He sent as Plenipotentiary. to Cliuquizaca, Count de Casa Real, who-assisted at the Congress formed by Nieto, the Archbishop, two Judges, two Alcaldes, and two Canons. They agreed on the incorporation of tho s e provinces with the Viceroyalty of Lima. Sanz.himsell went to Cabildo to the acquaint it of the measures taken, and the Members of it were so poor, . , . . . . . . . : ignorant; and weak, that they loWercd their heads: This Vizier ordered, that . two dispatches he left should not be opened until the return -of the Cdunr. The Cabildo obeyed his orders, and when the dis patches. were read, they , were direOed to be ar chived. It . is said, that SaDZ, as uen as the Ca 7 hilio,. hare' wi - tieii to Lima, 'signifyin g th a t t hi s town wishes to se i arate itself from it scapital, Buenos Ayro. " The remittance of money to the 'merchants Is prohibited, that - hunger may force surrender. : We arc garrisoned with 200 men; and 2000 from CuCo. Ido not knoWwhetherAhe people- will arm; bat the Pa triots and EuropeaoSpJniard , are inclined to follow the example of Buenos Ayres, with the exception of those who bold sitilations, and here and there some vile. adulator, who for the present temporises; with the oppressor, no one wishing to saeriOe - e his life for the sole cause of Sanz, 9r to support his ar rogance and ambition. lam of opinion that as soon as the troops sent from the capital approach, some will join their good brothers in arms, others will .de iert, and will leave this.gtinetal promoter ot the mirst. unjust war. He has no more that) 580 stand of arms ; and the soldiers, some foieed,_ and others cowardly and pusilanimous artizans, sigh, to be freed from oppression. Sanz proposes to himself -a foolish plan, and he fancies he can drive back the wholesome-River Plate, and then attack the small rivulets that join it. He flatters himself that no more than 500. men are coming against ; and upon, this erroneous number h e calculates upon vic tory ;—would to God that the Ja r ita had exptessed itself in less arobiguotls terms, and would send a competent quantity of troops to carry the I.oth ar ticle of the plan into execution. They would so phisticate !css, and proceed better' on the straight road of reason. ,1t is of the greatest importance that the troops shotild hasten their march. There not a sufficient quantity of arms nor troops here, and there is a disposition in the people to receise the'troops as brothers, with open arms as our re deemers. The City of Plate is possessed of as much patriotistn as that of Buenos. Ayres, and the soldiers, much united with the Ch,olas Nieto, thoni.,ht to dis arm the, City of CuChabarnb:r, but 2000 men unit jog, they 'opposed his intentions, and him one of their valiant sons, who challenged him to fight, and trqueited him to go in person to collect their arms. In a word, all these towns are ripe to foliow the example of Buenos Ayres. • = NORONA." The French General DROUET, commanding the 9th corps of the Army of Spain, is son of the identi cal Postmaster of Varenne3, and assisted his father in so dexterously impeding the escape of the unfor tunate LoOs XVI. by overturning a carriage on the bridge of . tnat town, The tollowing is an Extra& of a Letter from Gua daloupe, dated September Is Colony of fers hardly any coonnercialresourees. The trench GoYertiment had so completely neglected, and its agents so thoroughly plundered it, that there is nei ther money not' pt.o..ttace; or at least very little of eitlier, most of the sugar plantations being Abandon ed tor want of hands to cultivate than, or turned into. fields for raising vegetable food during .the long stria blockade. Cotninissibn trade is the only one which °tiers any advantage, as it is still puisible to make with the planters some profitable batters; but money tiattiatiiutts are oat of the question." The death of the Earl of 'DikarmouTir has occa sioned a new impediment to the rebuilding of Drury lane Theatre. His Lordslfp had signified his inten tion to grant a license for a long' perior . l, and propo sals' for raisitng a sant by subsciiption would, it is said, have been sp'eeatly . Issued, bot his unexpeCted death has, for the present put a stop to all jro cceding.. It would hardly have been believed some years ago, that any 'despot . in the civilized part of the world could have resorted to such measures as .NAPOLEON adopts, without a moral certainty of being hurled in to instant-destruction. The greater portion of the most enlightened quarter - of the world submits to the most barbarouS fiscal regulations of an individual, who dreams as little: of resistance as .if he operated upon. so ninth dead matter. 'No consideration of the feelings ; the sufferings, or the hostility of the vist population subjet to his command is of suffi cient importance to mike .Lim think it necessary to deViate in the least from tis puriiose: Nothing can convey a more, awliiiirnpression of the ittestisible' energy, while it lasts, of agovernment of inilit'ary Mr. POPE, it seems, hai returned to town, gfter a very profitable ramble. to .some. provincial Theatres, and will probably employ his pencil instead of his truncheon for tne winter season. •In hii two-fold quality of actor and attist he may. Nrly say with the poet-- " Equal. to both, and arnfcl for either field." • • • Mr. 1.1.01iD, by , who . ,e "efforts Truetnan, the rob bet', was - secUred, notvvithstatding all the desperate eilbrts of the gang to - whieb the salter belonged ; displayed such a tirnvand persevering' intrepidity, in supporting the interests `of 'justice, and suffered so much dutiag the several struggles, That some pecu liar mark .of respett,' by %Val' of 'reward, should be shewn to hint; tor the sake of ex.imple, as well'as to recompense so meritorious an FARMING STOCK...----=When the hundred guinea cow..was sent borne by , the purcha4er to his bailiff, - the man was•so: surprised • that be did not know what to give her. On the return of the owner he found- her without -Meat, which the vcry simply apologized fot' by saying, " he thought such a cow would have been affronted with grass !" • Tuesday the. 23d a dreadful flash of lightning burst into the house of Thomas Wallis, • between' Tralee and Dingle, which killed a' woman on the spot, and burned two children, one aged four, and the other two years, in a very severe manner.' Wal lis had the side of his face and one of his Lgs dread fully burned: . A fire broke out on S'unday morning at . six o'clock., at a cabinet and chair manufactory; in Mar-. garet-street, Well-street, Oxford-roil, whiCh burnt with great fury. By the assistance of Cite inhabi tants-lrom the surrounding houses with - water; and the early arrival of the engines, it was or under after destroying the work-hops. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. • Sp.l--,-With reference to a paragraph regarding' ine in a Sunday ,Paper i called The Examiner, j it my duty to state...that I shall aif.)rtl the Ainhor opportunity . of justirYing his, assertions by att itntne dime opiteal to the laws of ruy country. • " In, the mean time, I shall, p e rh aps , be warranted in stating, that the par6grapli alnpled to is .1 . ~so in point a fac' ; and j ali;iough it is very j tin• fal to me to h6thuS forced to pity the egotis., ji ven ture to assv.rt, without the hazard refination; that universaqy; with regard to me, the wurdi " .liwale credilar,7 and zeolow f;lerui," are syno- . nimous ; and that, although a Commission was an alternative rendered neeespory and th-,irahle by :1 combina!ion of utitm.varci circunnvanceg, susceptible . 0 f 's,,tivictory ati.l easy exitlanal ion ; yet . My e,twe dual to the payment o! fotfy-live in tilt:: pound, or; ih other-wrilq, I cannot well tali :0 en joy a net surphis of sevnnty or eighty thonsand pounds, after every claim on my estate has beets, satisfied. 6,. Bridge-slreel, Nov. s , jBl 0. R. NuLtars. There is now tiring in the cadent belonging to the B e e, o pt s p„l e e e. at Pseerbotough, a Land Tor toise; which is ascertain e d w have neeo their 2QO year and upwards t -i The upper. shell is about t we l ve or fourteen inch es l ong , '. i d abort ttine broad, the neck has all the appearanc e of exlrenieold age; the sight of one of its eyes is gone; • the otherseettes bright and very lively ; tie inside of the month, as well as the tongue, is a foll pink celjUr ; no teeth, but ,masticates with its goofs; wince, are of 'a bony substance ; the legs sod" !Act are coverM (like the besd) -. with sear_,,',ind are so 'strong that i t will walk, or : rather crawl, with a considerate weight on its back.eand seetoin.g itigly with ease. In ,the early - part of summer it in general feeds upon lettuces and when the freit becomes' ripe it crawls under the gooseberry bushes, and picks off what is on the lower braeehes, 'arid the fruit it cannot reach is amply supplied by the frequent company and the gardeners, from hande it receives what is given with great gentle. • ness. ToWards Michaelmas, and Sometitnei eariier, it buries itself in the earth, where it remaies till th e following spring; in a few dip after it bath made this annual deseeut, by finding the depth with a Stich, a tolerably 'accurate judgment can be formed of the mildness or severity of the ensiling .winter. This ex traordinary animal is about twenty pOunds in weight, M. Brun, a pupil of the Polytechnic school, re siding at Chambery, in France, has resolved, in a highly satisfactory manner, the following probietn : T o fi n d the meens of giving to telegraphic corre spondence the same certainty as to correspondence by couriers, without requiring of the persons so corresponding ,store labour and time than is neces sary for writing dispatches, while at the same time the merely mechanical agents shall know nothing of the purport of it." Hu propeses a copper wheel, with one hundrJd teeth. Each of these teeth is the type not only of .a letter of the alphabet, out also of a numerical sign. This wheel, which is , he cor respondent causes teriturn in a vertical direction round its axis, has two supports with springs, by means of which he presses at pleasure a tangent point, which will stamp the letter he wants upon differeet papers rolled one over the other, round a cylinder. As there are not a hundred letters in the alphabet, it .is augmented by giving several num bers to those which have several pronunciations, .and even to whole syllable,s that frequently occur in conversation, such as pronouns, &c. Thus the telegraph .will exhibit the printed numbers; one after another, and the lase person to whom the dis patch is confided, and who is supposed to be only a a mechanical agent, will enrol the words by an ope ration, the reverse of the first. He will there find nothing bet detached . signs, to which the officer alone to whom the dispatch is . addre,sed, !nest possess the key ; since several of the representative numbers introduced among those which haver the usual signification, will be real hieroglyphics to the mechanical : agents. Mr. Brun himself proposes very serious objections, which he answers in the -clearest. manner ; .and if his process falls short of all the perfection which might be &sited, still , it may be asserted, that it is capable of engendering the most ingenious ideas in those who would devote their, attention to so important a subject. Fooerep RoBSEllY.—This system of-robbery is now practised with impunity in and-about London, nightly, ana, as it is supposed, by one gang.- 7 M r. Elsden, a builder, was attacked near his own .house, in Thornhaugh-street, Bedford-square, before nine o'clock, on Friday evening last. The robbers were a tall- twin and a short man, and they answer the de scriptioneof those who have been robbiag •on the northern side of London, and also the same who committed some robberies at Lewisham. One •of them stopped Mr. E.'s mouth; the other present ed a pistol close at his head, which Mr. Elscle.n caught at, and wrested it from the villain who pre sented'it. He grappled, and fell with them, and they ran off' without robbing him. He snapped the pistol at the thieves in their retreat, but it miss= ed fire.' The pistol is now in the po ssess i on ali t . milton at Marlborough-street, and it has the maker's namee Bboth, Chatham. • SUnday v.r..ek, Loveday, one of the Tide Surveyors 3t Harwieh, - in the service of the ens toms, found, artfully concealed on board a' foreign . vessel between the timbers, near her bottom, Atli which •was in the ad of . being conveyed out of the kingdom, .20 bars of gold, supposed to be worth about 12,0001. which he convey echo the Custom house there. Lord Nelson's MOnument• in 'Gbildhall, will be opened in few clays to public view. Jill its insignia cornbine to display that glorious base on which he built immortal tame. , Under this identical spot will open a scene on the 4th of next Month, no; built on naval but• civic fame; when twenty-five new and 'noble mansions will be at . issue. Although they cannot boast of immortality; they Will certa i nly stand in tleed ot no - lepait • fiir 'fifty years at least. The saga.nous reader will readily' perceve, hat th e G ijAND CITY LOTTEkY is the subject here alluded AO.